Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0Buchanan ranks above 96% of Canadian towns on Indigenous residents: 19%
12% of households rent their home (Canada’s towns: 25%). Few places have so few one-person households: 22% here, fewer than in 70% of Canadian towns. Census day 2021: 3,473 residents and 1,335 households in Buchanan. Here, 6% of residents lived at another address a year earlier.
What stands out about the people of Buchanan
First Nations, Métis and Inuit residents
19% of residents identify as First Nations, Métis or Inuit, more than in 96% of Canadian towns; 7.6% are Registered or Treaty Indians. Identity & religion ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census.
A median age of 43.4: Buchanan is older than 58% of Canadian towns
Every figure here comes from the 2021 Census unless it carries another date. Residents by five-year age band, each beside the typical town (the tick).
55–59 is the most common age band: 7.7% of residents. Among Manitoba’s towns, Brockville has the highest share aged 65 or over, at 54%. Little separates the share of residents aged 15 to 24 here, 11%, from the figure across Canada’s towns.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Buchanan, 43.4. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split.
10% of households are one-parent families, more than in 77% of Canadian towns
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
At 2.5 people, the average household compares with 2.4 across Canada’s towns. Across Canada’s towns, 8.2% of households are one-parent families.
49% of residents 15 and over are married, a share 57% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Married, common-law, single: residents 15 and over.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Single and never married: 28% of adults, against a typical 27%. The wider picture: 46% of residents 15 and over are married across Canada’s towns. For Buchanan, the census puts common-law partners at 11%.
Buchanan sits below 51% of Canadian towns for households in single-detached houses (63%)
Dwelling types, tenure and age of the housing. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in 74% of Canadian towns. As a reference point, 64% of households live in a single-detached house across Canada’s towns. Newer homes outnumber old: 15% date from 2001 or later, 4.9% from before 1961.
$98,200 a year is the median household income here
Census incomes cover 2020, when emergency benefits like CERB lifted many households’ totals. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Buchanan’s median household took in $98,200 before tax, 14% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Manitoba’s towns, half of households had more than $83,000 before tax. 22% of income recipients received COVID-19 emergency or recovery benefits (typical: 28%).
15% of residents are immigrants
Where immigrants were born and when they came, and how recently residents moved in.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 25%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (40%) and in Europe (32%). A quarter of immigrants arrived between 2011 and 2021, against 27% across Canada’s towns.
A higher share of residents with no religion than 61% of Canadian towns, at 39%
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
On the census count, 13% of residents belong to a visible minority. The benchmark for residents with no religion across Canada’s towns: 35%.
85% have English as their mother tongue; 7% also speak French
The official languages residents can speak, and the ones they learned first.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
1.5% of residents have French as their mother tongue.
Buchanan sits below 58% of Canadian towns for degree holders aged 25 to 64 (23%)
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
7.4% have no certificate, diploma or degree (typical: 9.5%). Against that, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
A job for 58% of residents aged 15 and over
May 2021 was still a pandemic month: the census’s work figures reflect that. Work, briefly: employment, unemployment, participation and working from home. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
Across Canada’s towns the typical rate is 58%, much like this 58%.
The 19th youngest of 41 towns of 3,410 to 3,536 people
The Canadian towns closest in population, from youngest to oldest.
Between Richfield (33.5) and Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap (61.2) lies the rest of the group. Sainte-Mélanie (43.2), Riverdale East (43.2), Mackenzie (43.6) and Hampton Heights (43.8): the towns nearest Buchanan in median age.
Of the 6 towns nearest Buchanan, 5 are older
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan | 3,473 | — | 43.4 | 18% | 15% |
| Crestview | 8,658 | 0.9 km | 40.9 | 19% | 15% |
| Glendale | 3,586 | 2.1 km | 48.2 | 26% | 12% |
| Westwood | 5,716 | 2.1 km | 44.5 | 21% | 12% |
| Sturgeon Creek | 3,202 | 2.1 km | 44.1 | 22% | 19% |
| Heritage Park | 5,817 | 2.6 km | 45.1 | 25% | 14% |
| Kirkfield | 4,100 | 2.6 km | 54.1 | 33% | 13% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. Statistics Canada publishes the census for municipalities, not neighbourhoods, so these figures add up the dissemination areas inside the neighbourhood. Counts are sums of StatCan’s rounded counts; the median age and income are worked out from the published age and income groups; and 2016 areas don’t add up to these, so there is no 2016 count.
- What these tables don’t give. Not in the Census Profile: unpaid care, cars, internet access, and how each age group has changed since 2016. We also chart no ethnic origins besides visible minority and Indigenous identity.
- The census’s own words. The census takes “visible minority” from the Employment Equity Act: anyone other than Indigenous peoples who is non-white in colour or race. Indigenous identity, immigrant status and religion are what residents reported, compared here with other towns and never used as a label.
- Against Manitoba’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Manitoba’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
Questions about Buchanan’s residents
What is the average age in Buchanan?
The median age is 43.4, older than 58% of Canadian towns. 16% are under 15 and 18% 65 or older.
Is Buchanan bilingual?
English and French: 7% speak both (Canada’s towns: 7.5%). English only: 92%. French only: 0.1%. French mother tongue: 1.5%.
How diverse is Buchanan?
Immigrants: 15% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 13%. Indigenous identity: 19%.
What religion are people in Buchanan?
39% said they have no religion and 59% that they are Christian; 3% named another faith.
Is Buchanan good for families?
16% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 59% of households and one-parent families 10%. Schools near Buchanan are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Buchanan?
Half of Buchanan’s households had more than $98,200 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Buchanan?
3,473, at the 2021 Census: Statistics Canada makes no later estimate for Buchanan alone.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).